In 2015, when the ISA-101 HMI Design Standard was published, it provided overall design guidance and a workflow for developing and managing HMI systems, including change management, and a framework for order for HMI. While the standard significantly improved the...
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Yes, You Can Reduce Your Plant’s Energy Costs Easily and Affordably
While many functions in industrial plants are commonly automated, the tracking and management of energy remains a task frequently conducted manually. Workers move around with spreadsheets from machine to machine, attempting to capture some semblance of the energy...
Leaning into “Lean”
Any company’s success is often linked with its ability to adapt and change in response to market conditions and demands. For this reason, it is important to create a corporate culture that supports continuous improvement and innovation. The idea is to create an...
Choosing the Right HMI is Critical in Food Processing
In the food processing industry, users choose human machine interfaces (HMI) based on their potential to make operational performance improvements, which generally means the HMI needs to be easy to use. Ease of use supports increased operator efficiency and...
Edge Control Technology Eliminates Downtime During Critical Sugar Harvest
Like many other industries, food and beverage companies are often “rock and a hard place” enterprises. They need technology upgrades, but have such tight margins, every proposed change must be justified with precise ROI. One such company is Raceland Sugar, a major...
Manage Energy for Processing, Discrete and Hybrid Plants – Simply and Cost-effectively
As regulations get more stringent and profitability more elusive for plants and factories, all eyes turn to energy management. Not only is high quality, uninterrupted power critical to operations’ continuity and plant safety, there is also substantial money to be...
Reduce Waste & Increase Efficiency in Clean-in-Place Processes
While the idea of adding costs to a food and beverage or pharmaceutical industry process like Clean-in-Place/Steam-in-Place (CIP/SIP) has not traditionally been an easy decision, in today’s industrial environment that has changed. With the retirement of experts, the...
The Need for Edge Technologies in Semiconductor Foundries
Manish Sharma’s Machine Design article, “Giving Semiconductor Foundries a Needed Edge” describes how the application of specific edge technologies support integrated and efficient foundry operation through the use of coordinated visualization, automation, IIoT, and analytical software.
Achieving Future-Ready Operations Through Digital Transformation
How manufacturers can meet the needs of today while preparing for tomorrow.
Edge Solutions Advantage
To overcome the risks and minimize overall cost, end users, OEMs and the SIs supporting them should consider the benefits of using comprehensive platforms offered by a solution provider with a complete and coordinated portfolio of industrial-specific hardware and software.
Edge to Cloud-Liberating Stranded Data
In a recent white paper on liberating stranded data, we discuss how data gets stranded and some of the new architectures that are changing this predicament by combining flexible and capable edge computing with a cloud computing model, making it not only feasible, but practical to analyze this data, gain new insights and make the results available to stakeholders.
How to Rescue Trapped Data
Despite the number of sensors collecting information in virtually every industrial plant, there are still many instances of “trapped data” – information that is being gathered, but not used to inform operators and decision-makers.
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